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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Fourth and Fifth Generation War: The Border Management over Eastern and Western Borders, “Need of the Hour”

Pakistan-Afghanistan drug routes map, described by UNODC

A
break of few weeks or months in the terrorism makes us happy that terrorism has
ended. Politicians in power start point scoring that they have established
peace but when a terrorist attack incurs we realize that govt. has not made any
progress on its own plan to tackle terrorism. Once again public is fooled with
the new claims, commitment and slogans to uproot terrorism. After death of
dozens of innocent men, women and children in the bomb blast over the shrine of
Laal Shehbaz Qalandar, the first decision taken was to close the Turkham Border
crossing which shows that security agencies had the reports that suicide
bombers had come from Afghanistan as per routine. Before blasts, intelligence
agencies had warned that suicide bombers had entered into Pakistan from
Afghanistan. Now when the 5 terrorist suicide attacks have been conducted
within Pakistan it shows that not only Turkham but there are other secret
routes on Eastern and Western borders to infiltrate into Pakistan.

As
a result of sacrifices and appreciable efforts of the security forces in
Operation Zarb-e-Azb although terrorism has been controlled too much extent. In
the way Pakistan army has cleansed Tribal areas from terrorists which were
termed even by British forces as “no go areas” and operation there as being
impossible. British Generals were astonished at the achievements of the
Pakistan army in these areas. But the fresh air of terrorism shows the steps
linked with the Operation Zarb-e-Azb have not been taken yet to make it
successful that were inevitable including Nation Action Plan (NAP) and
establishing coordinated system of checking over the border. Both of these
actions require heavy funds, legal protection and political support from the
govt. But govt. either showed unwillingness or reluctance in these steps due to
which Pakistan army had to take the decision of implementation of border
management over Turkham and condition traffic across the border with the
availability of documents of journey. In this regard in June 2016 construction
of gate was started which was unacceptable for anti-Pakistan powers controlling
Afghanistan especially India. On 14th June 2016, Afghan forces
started unprovoked firing over the border in order to stop construction of the
gate which claimed lives of soldiers of Pakistan army and Major Jawad Ali
Changezi. However, Pakistan army completed the construction work and
implemented the procedure of checking of documents of those willing to move
across the border. Despite of all this, the Pak-Afghan border is 2430 kilometers
long and there are many passes from where terrorists infiltrate into Pakistan.
A trench (14 feet wide and 11 feet deep) of 1100 kilometers length have been
dug upwhich is not easy to cross. The
areas adjacent to KPK border where there are mountains or ditches it is not
possible to dig trench or erect walls; only possibility to stop terrorists is
through manpower. This requires big numbers of manpower of Border Security
Force or Rangers but we will have to wait for few years to train the special troops
for being deployed in these areas.

India and Pakistan shared an International boundary that stretches to 3640 Km, which consists of marked International boundary of 2900 Km and 740 Km of LOC or line of control in Jammu

Indian
and other anti-Pakistan forces are also actively observing this situation. They
are working day and night to chalk out new routes for infiltration into
Pakistan, supply of weapons, explosives and other equipment used in terrorism.
For this they have three ways left as enumerated below:

1)Entering
in Pakistan areas over unpopulated areas from the sea routes through small
boats under the garb of fishermen. In order to tackle this situation Pakistan
Navy has started patrolling over the sea. China has handed over two warships to
Pakistan equipped with latest systems to Pakistan for protection of Gawadar
port. Moreover, 2 Chinese Nuclear submarines are also present in the sea. The
ships of Pakistani Navy are also patrolling the area but it is not possible to
monitor the borders over the open sea hundred percent. In this regard there is
the need of a sophisticated security system under NAP so that if any terrorist
succeeds to infiltrate into Pakistan, he can be easily pointed out and hunted
down.

2)Second
option of infiltrating agents and terrorists is through the traditional way of
using fake / forged identity documents over the international airports or sea
ports to enter into Pakistan. Even the most modern security equipment and
professional training of manpower in Europe have failed to stop such
infiltration. Because for this purpose smuggling gangs from under world are
utilized who are not only expert in trafficking of women, drugs and weapons but
also have cooperation from the corrupt govt. officials as well. The weapons
daily being recovered from Balochistan and Karachi are coming from the outer world
and we should not forget about the thousands of NATO containers that were
stolen / lost into Pakistan and have not been traced yet.

Indian fencing of border

3)The
third option is to exploit the 2912 kilometers of Indian border along with 740
kilometers long Line of Control (LoC). Although India has constructed barbed
wire wall over the border. This barbed wire wall is half to one kilometer away
from Zero line. The land outside the barbed wire wall is being cultivated,
Indians have constructed iron gates in the barbed wire wall, Indian farmers
pass through these gates for cultivation of their land. On the Pakistani side
we have only Rangers to look after the crossing across the border. For this we
have 300 to 400 personnel in order to look after every 100 kilometers of the
area. India has constructed small mud rooms or huts outside the said wall; in
the day Indians hide their agents in these huts or rooms who attempt to enter
into Pakistani area in the dark of the night. Some of them are hunted down
while others succeed in crossing the border. Similar procedure is used by the
smugglers. It is not possible for the Rangers to ensure 100% observation over
the border due to open border.

In 2002, Indians utilized the
Rajasthan border for supply of weapons and ammunition to Indian supported
terrorists in Balochistan. For this purpose a town named as Kishan Garh was
chosen by Indians which is only 5 kilometers away from the border. If we look
at the map, the provincial border of Punjab-Balochistan is only 130 kilometers
away from this town. Indian intelligence took up the control of godowns of
smugglers from Kishan Garh to Shah Garh (190 kilometers of area over border)
with the help of Police and civil administration and converted them into weapon
depots. Initially, mines, KKs, hand grenades, dynamite, RPG and
telecommunication equipment was smuggled into Balochistan, Pakistan. After a
big number of these lights weapons were dumped into Balochistan, Indians
started smuggling heavy machine guns and mortar guns. According to, Andrew
Gavin a US journalist all these weapons were smuggled into Pakistan through
traditional way of smuggling where it was laid upon the camels and transported
to the smuggling areas of Sindh from where it was laden into small trucks
hidden under other goods and at least reached Balochistan. Truck drivers, labor
and Police on patrol took these as commonly smuggled goods like wine, dry spices
etc. After establishing a well-coordinated system, training centers of
terrorists in Balochistan the system of supply of weapons was shifted to
Afghanistan in 2005.

FC digging long trench on Pak-Afghan border

With the start
of 2005, the terrorist activities on the large basis started into Balochistan
which needed uninterrupted supply of weapons and ammunition. In order to
address these needs India established a well-coordinated supply system through
Dalbaddin, Noshaki, Khuzdar and Dera Bugti from Afghanistan. The movement of
weapons and trained terrorists was monitored by Israeli satellite.

Here I would
like to mention a report of CNN on 12 February 2009, in which Germany has
sought explanation from US officials in Afghanistan that 60% of the weapons
provided by Germany in 2006 for Afghan army and Police have been missing. After
the disclosures from Germany, when US intelligence agency inquired the weapons
provided to Afghan soldiers and Police from 2004 to 2008, it was revealed that
out of 242000 light machine guns, automatic long range rifles and other
weapons, 87000 have not been put in record at all while the 460091 rifles
entered into record are physically missing. Indian forces were given the
responsibility of training Afghan soldiers / police and hand over these weapons
to Afghans. But Indians sold these weapons to Afghan militants and the rest was
smuggled into Pakistan to be utilized by Indian agents in Balochistan Pakistan
for which Pakistan has to launch Operation Zarb-e-Azb.

With 1.5 Lakh Lights Illuminating it, This Is How India's Border with Pakistan Looks like

We
had started from the Border Management for which a detailed post would not
suffice. From the 1947 to present the history proves that India is our only
enemy while rest are just her allies. How can India prove to be friend of
Pakistan in the future? Of course India will find new ways of terrorism in
Pakistan. Pakistan will have to find a cure herself. One of this, is the well-coordinated
system of monitoring the borders, increasing the capability of Rangers and
activating the civil security agencies. This is only possible when our
politicians and rulers take India as an enemy and realize that war is not the
name of the attack by tanks or cannons but fourth and fifth generation wars are
much more lethal and sophisticated. Army cannot face this type of war alone but
whole nation will have to face this type of war united…